Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Position 2024-2025

13 Feb 2024    

The Cambridge Health Alliance /Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry is seeking applicants for a psychology postdoctoral fellowship in: Child and Adolescent Acute Services

This one-year fellowship consists of rotations on two inpatient CHA inpatient units: The Child Assessment Unit (serving children ages 3-12) and the Adolescent Assessment Unit, (serving adolescents ages 13-19), as well as an outpatient rotation in the Autism and Developmental Disabilities evaluation clinic in the Child Outpatient Psychiatry Department.  Both units have a patient population that is quite diverse ethnically and diagnostically, and operate within a collaborative interdisciplinary team framework. There is also potentially an option for exposure to the child and adolescent neurodevelopmental units.

While on the inpatient units, fellows serve as the primary clinician for two cases in which they provide individual, family and systems assessment and interventions. Fellows also complete 3-4 psychological assessment batteries during the two inpatient rotations, often including performance (projective), personality, and cognitive testing measures. Supervision emphasizes psychodynamic, attachment, trauma-informed and family systems approaches. Fellows also lead and co-lead therapy groups on each unit, including psychodynamic approaches and utilization of performance tasks to enhance understanding of patient needs in novel group designs. Available seminars include a family systems seminar and a Psychological Assessment Seminar, and the fellow will also attend a year-long Professional Development Seminar with other postdoctoral fellows (which includes preparation for a day-long experience at the Harvard Law School serving as an expert witness in a mock trial).

The fellowship provides an annual stipend of $ 56,880, along with four weeks vacation, health insurance options, educational expenses and an appointment as a Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Interested applicants should email a CV, a cover letter, 3 letters of recommendation and a de-identified work sample involving work with an adolescent at risk, to: Marla Eby, PhD, Director of Psychology Postdoctoral Training at meby@challiance.org. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

More information about this fellowship can be obtained through this link: https://www.challiance.org/academics/psychology-training-programs/postdoctoral-program/postdoctoral-program-home